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Table 1 Lung cancer diagnoses from baseline low-dose CT screening and follow-up standard diagnostic CT

From: Low-dose CT scan screening for lung cancer: comparison of images and radiation doses between low-dose CT and follow-up standard diagnostic CT

Subject number

Age

Sex

Number of pulmonary nodules

Days after diagnosis

Nodule diameter by low-dose CT (mm)

Nodule diameter by follow-up diagnostic CT (mm)

Diagnosis

1

57

M

1

43

15

15

Malignant nodule (adenocarcinoma as pure GGO with multiloculated cystic lesions )

2

46

M

1

15

13

13

Malignant nodule (pleural dissemination of adenocarcinoma as solid nodule with spiculation)

3

60

F

2

48

15 – 16

15 – 16

Two malignant nodules (bronchiolalveolar carcinomaı

4

66

F

7

3

4 – 7

4 – 7

All benign nodules

5

70

M

3

25

6

6

All benign nodules

6

60

M

4

38

3 – 8

3 – 8

Benign nodules

7

61

F

1

41

6

6

Benign nodule

8

59

F

4

27

4 – 7

4 – 8

All benign nodules

9

82

M

2

44

14 – 17

13 – 16

Possibly benign nodule, benign nodules

10

53

F

1

40

12

10

Benign nodule

11

65

F

1

35

11

10

Possibly benign nodule

12

49

F

1

74

6

5

Benign nodule

13

77

M

1

120

9

8

Benign nodule

14

60

M

2

119

4 – 7

4 – 8

All benign nodules

15

59

F

2

120

4 – 7

4 – 6

All benign nodules

16

61

F

1

118

7

7

Benign nodule

17

45

M

1

117

6

8

Benign nodule

18

64

M

1

120

9

8

Benign nodule

19

57

F

1

59

9

9

Possibly benign nodule